Fortress
Jiayuguan
🇨🇳 China
Jiayu Pass or (simplified Chinese: 嘉峪关; traditional Chinese: 嘉峪關; pinyin: Jiāyù Guān) is the first frontier fortress at the west end of the Ming dynasty Great Wall, near the city of Jiayuguan in Gansu province. Along with Juyong Pass and Shanhai Pass, it is one of the main passes of the Great Wall. In the Ming period, foreign merchants and envoys from Central Asia and West Asia mostly entered China through Jiayu Pass.
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Jiayuguan ranks #308 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #13 of the 120 mapped in China. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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